A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Volumen1A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1787 - 508 páginas |
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Página 37 - A lady, to whom I was giving an account of it the day on which it happened, could with difficulty allow me to proceed thus far in my narrative ; but, interrupting me with impatience, she said, she was 'surprised I could repeat all the nonsensical, detestable, impious maxims of those odious Mahometans ; and she thought Mr. Montague should be sent back to Egypt, with...
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Página 427 - Circus and amphitheatres, where every sentiment of humanity was annihilated within their breasts, and where the agonies and torments of their fellow-creatures were their chief pastime. That no occasion might be lost of indulging this savage taste of the populace, criminals were condemned to fight with wild beasts in the arena, or were exposed, unarmed, to be torn in pieces by them ; at other times, they were blindfolded, and in that condition obliged to cut and •slaughter...